Featherstone Rovers to host Castleford Tigers in January

Featherstone Rovers have confirmed that they will be staging a local derby when they play Castleford Tigers in a pre-season warm-up early next year.

The two clubs met at Castleford’s Wish Communications Stadium in a warm-up for last season, but this time they will meet at Featherstone’s Bigfellas Stadium with the game set to take place on Sunday, January 26, 2014. Kick-off will be 3pm.

Featherstone Rovers chief executive Craig Poskitt said “We are delighted to secure another important warm-up game at the Bigfellas Stadium. 2014 is an important year for Featherstone Rovers and we hope the our pre-season calendar will be of great interest to our supporters.”

Castleford will announce the rest of their pre-season fixtures shortly and are looking at a Boxing Day fixture.